Batching xdcam HD is SLOW !! (blueray slow ?)

[Jerry Hofmann]

I would imagine that blu-ray readers will get faster as time goes by.

Jerry

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[Andy Mees]

that is disappointing.
the PDW-U1 drive units have a faster optical drive mechanism than earlier xdcam players w/ max read speed of 120 Mbs versus the older player’s max read of 72 Mbs, or so it is reported.
i’ve generally seen transfers of xdhd at around 1.2 – 1.4x on our F70’s, with the U1 i’d have expected speeds more like 2x – 2.5x

[Chris Borjis]

aw man, thats a real bummer.

Those drives were supposed to be MUCH faster and I do
know what you mean as I once transferred a full disc
contents and was rather disappointed at the slowness
of even the deck version over firewire.

Are you running the latest driver/software for it?
That might make a difference.

They should have employed a firewire-800 interface instead of usb imo

[Jeremy Doyle]

I’m not sure what’s different, but I get 2:1 or even 2.3:1 transfer speeds using the drive. It’s way faster than transferring from a camera or a deck.

I’m running an 2007 octo with 8 gigs of ram hooked to an apple xraid 3tb. My drives are 70% full.

Forgot to mention that I got those transfer speeds on a dual 2.0 G5 as well before upgrading to the octo.

I’ve been using the drive since last september. Now if only they would release the firmware for making the drive writable

[Dave Jenkins]

I get 2x – 2.5x from my camera all the time using the Sony transfer software. I did see a slight slow down with the latest version of the transfer software, but still get 2x.

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